I saw ‘Joe Dirt’ tonight, and as soon as I saw the main love interest my jaw dropped. DAMN. I don’t even care for the tanned blonde type usually, but I’ve found an exception. And then I find out at IMDB.COM she has a twin! <shudders>
My guess is I don’t watch enough movies.
Since posting this I’ve looked up some other pictures of her, and in a lot of them she isn’t as cute as she is in the movie, and appears to be more the generic hot blonde, but a lot of that has to do with the way photographers shoot women…see the Maxim photos of Melissa Joan Hart, where she is practically unrecognizable.
Not sure what it is about this girl that grabs my attention…something about her looks very familiar, and I’m currently trying to figure out if she resembles any of my old crushes…
In case you were wondering what she looks like.
Yep, I’d say a generic hot blonde. Not that there’s anything wrong with generic hot blondes, mind you. 
Sometimes a still picture can’t capture the spark or whatever it is that makes a woman attractive to me. Those pictures from ‘Sweet Valley High’ on that page you linked are pretty blah to me, I don’t like the way they have her hair and how she was made-up. The pictures from ‘The Basketball Diaries’ further down come closer, but still don’t get it.
For one thing, she had short hair in ‘Joe Dirt’, and seemed like she had a bit more meat on her bones than in most of the pictures I’m finding on her - still skinny, but substantial.
Here’s some links to better pics, in my opinion at least.
Collage of shots from Dawson’s Creek that somewhat capture what I found appealing about her in Joe Dirt.
Here’s a fine example of what I was talking about, how really cute girls get turned into GHBs (Generic Hot Blondes).
Cute Melissa Joan Hart
http://galleries.abazz.com/MelissaJoanHart/image15.html
http://galleries.abazz.com/MelissaJoanHart/image22.html
GHBized Melissa Joan Hart
http://galleries.abazz.com/MelissaJoanHart/image01.html
http://galleries.abazz.com/MelissaJoanHart/image04.html
Middle Ground Pic
She’s old news, Bijou Phillips is the current GHB.
ah ha! I finally found it…
Just curious as to why my site was getting visitors from this board… took me a while but I found it…
http://galleries.abazz.com
Brittney Spaniels? 
Whatever floats your boat, dude.
:walks away, shaking head:

Let me know if you mind me linking to your sites. You may notice I linked to the pages, not to the pictures themselves, didn’t want to leech your bandwidth without giving you banner hits.
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Melissa Joan Hart has come a long freakin’ way from Clarissa Explains It All. Be still my heart.
is both a great band name, and not nearly as dirty as it sounds.